GC: Legal “sex change“, Is there room for compromise?

submitted by peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS from self.GCdebatesQT

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So, when I transitioned you had to have surgery in order to change sex on documents. Prior to surgery, all I was able to do was change my name. My surgeon had to provide a letter for a judge that stated that basically my sex had been irreversibly reassigned and then I had to go before a judge who issued an order that I could take to vital records and they’d changed my birth certificate. It may not have been perfect, but I feel like someone who might be a danger maybe wouldn’t be willing to go through all of that. Also, if there is gatekeeping at other parts of process too that would help stop people who would be a danger from going through it.

Those last two questions are like ones I don’t have good answers to, which makes me think that maybe the better thing would be taking sex off of as much ID as possible, so we wouldn’t feel like we had to change it. If we’re able to fully participate in life without worrying about issues because of a sex marker, we wouldn’t have any reason to worry about it still saying our natal sex (to me at least). I’m sure there are trans people who would want that for some sort of validation, but to me that isn’t really a good reason.

[–]divingrightintowork 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From what I understand people "like you," are approximately 1 in 10k, give take. I'm not sure how much we really should change the entire system for a few fairly extreme edge cases - that's especially assuming all cops / state entities don't know what to do with people who appear to be a different sex than their ID states (sounds like updated pictures should be an easy enough solution though, no?) -

though this guy claims transitioning helped his career, and he's in texas - https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/20c/How-the-transgender-movt-destroyed-a-family/index.html

Though I'd like to talk to someone / hear the case of why we do have our sex marker on IDs - but there will always be edge cases (passing trans people, women who look like men, men who look like women, etc.) - I don't think an imperfect line is a good argument to get rid of lines - there is a whole idiom with it - "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater," and there won't be a perfect solution to this (also like uncomfortable interactions with cops are normal - I've had a lot - as have many other friends).